Feistier Than Usual
Friday, December 2nd, 2016From Friday Mom – Erin:
That is how Charlotte’s teachers characterized her day yesterday. Apparently she was even bossier than usual, so much so that her primary teacher asked what we had done to her the night before. She wouldn’t allow anyone to do anything any way other than HER way. And it was bad enough that her teachers wrote it down on her daily report sheet.
At almost two, my biggest concern is that what we’re seeing isn’t actually a passing, one-day thing, and, instead her true terrible twos. I believe I mentioned earlier this year that I thought she had “early onset twos.” I genuinely thought she was ahead of the game and that maybe we’d be out of the woods sooner. Now, I’m starting to think it was a mere fraction of the fire and independence this little spitfire is going to have in the coming year. Sure, its terrific that she’s communicating, and it is starting to feel as though we have two independent (yet still very, very dependent) children on our hands. But when she is. . . feisty. . . oh man is she ever.
The good news, so far, is that she does seem to listen to redirection and firm instructions reasonably well. So, if worst comes to worst, we’ll just end up introducing more of the discipline tactics that we used on her big brother a bit sooner than we had to with him. And in the interim, we’ll probably work on finding ways to channel that determination towards something other than just forcing us to do what we’re told.
